So you’ve done your research and quickly realized that Hadoop is going to be at the very core of your company’s Big Data Platform, given that data storage and processing will never get more cost...

If you've spent more than five minutes researching big data, you've already come across technologies like Hadoop, BigQuery, EMR and RedShift, and you may even know what OLAP and NoSQL means and where they fit...

Old school MapReduce (MR) has been in widespread production use for several years now, and it certainly has both raving fans as well as detractors. Two of the most common and valid complaints the critics...

Both the "briefcases" and the "backpacks" were out in force at the Hadoop Summit at the San Jose Convention Center June 26–27. Marketing types (the "briefcases") and data scientists and hackers (the "backpacks") showed up...

In part 1, we discussed the challenge of administering the Hadoop platform for admin newbies. We also reviewed the rationale and advantages of leveraging commercial Hadoop distributions to manage an evolving Hadoop platform. Today, we’ll...

Hadoop is just storage and computing, so administering a Hadoop cluster should be a breeze, right? Well… not necessarily. When we’re talking about Hadoop, we’re talking about a fast-moving open source project that covers many...

In early May, I stumbled across an IDC press release for their first forecast on the Hadoop ecosystem. Besides their usual solid research that IDC typically delivers, the forecast was notable in several ways. The...

In the world of big data, most industry experts agree that Hadoop is the tool of choice for ingestion, analysis, and interpretation of the massive amounts of data that nearly every business finds itself swimming...

Once you’re doing real development, you’ll want to get into the habit of using smaller, test datasets on your local machine and running your code iteratively in Local Jobrunner Mode (which lets you locally test...

Learning how to program and develop for the Hadoop platform can lead to lucrative new career opportunities in Big Data. But like the problems it solves, the Hadoop framework can be quite complex and challenging....

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